The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-30
There is in Florida equity COM

There is in Florida equity COM
posed entirely of islands.
= The 21st Of July will be Mrs. Cleve.
land s twenty-third birthday.
In Louisville there are more red.
headed women and girls than in any
other city of the Union.
In Garfield County, COL, there are
LOO unmarried men, and only twenty
eight unmarried women.
- The Rev. John Jasper says he has
preached his sermon, "Sun do move,"
over II hundred times. He was offered
S400 to preach it in London.
- Indian River, Florida, is said to be
the srraightest in the world. A straight
line can be drawn through it for seventy.
FIVE miles without touching shore.
lit is said that many society women
in Chicago lost heavily by the break of
the wheat corner, and that in some cases
their husbands refused to settle the
losses.
= No liquor seller will hereafter be
received into any Masonic Lodge in
Dakota, either by Initiation or afiliation,
the Grand Lodge at Huron having adopt
ed a resolution to that effect.
= Connecticut has good credit. Re.
Gently she wanted to borrow 100000,
and advertised for bids for 81 per cent
bonds 10 that amount. The bids received
aggregated over $700,0O0,000.
The Mormons of Utah are to hold
on the Both inst. Constitutional Con.
vention. They intend to frame consti.
tuition and to apply to Congress for the
elevation of Utah to the rank of State.
BE careful how you handle your
government bonds. A Boston millionaire
was cutting coupons the other day when
his shares dropped and inflicted wound
in his knee from which blood poison has
resulted.
"A man at Americus, Ca, went to
bed thinking so intently of o mulberry
tree that he was to transplant in the
morning that be got up in his sleep and
transplanted the tree, and went back to
bed without waking up.
"A Florida court the other day ac-
quilted man tried for breaking into a
car, for the ridiculous reason that, while
there ID a law against breaking into
house or vessel, there is none against
breaking into car.
In the sixteenth century man who
couldn't stand up under gallon of wine
or beer was looked upon as a nobody. In
this age men are being sent up for get.
ting drunk on Two or three glasses. Has
human anatomy undergone change?
"A. G. Norton and his son Richard
shot and killed j. l.. Hamlin, of Able.
vile, on Thursday morning at Porter's
Station, Orangeburg county, on the line
of the k,utawville railroad. Both were
arrested. The cause of the ARRAY is not
stated.
In assigning the recent graduates of
the West Point Military Academy to duty
as second lieutenants in the army, Secre-
tary Whitney has appointed John w.
Jenkins, of South Carolina, to the 9th
cavalry and T. @. Donaldson, of South
Carolina, to the Sd cavalry.
A fruit-grower claims to have sue
cessfully grated peach shoot on sas.
safras tres, and new fruit of high flavor
is expected. If this discovery should be
confirmed, it will be- boom to large
area in the Southern States, where the
soil seems to produce sassafras iu great
abundance.
IF you have boy named Bill, or
Bud, or Sam, or Tom, you need not fear
that he will be drowned during the
swimming season. The boy who has
plug name and whose hair stands up
straight like hazel brush, and who has
stone bruises on his feet, is not in danger
of drowning. But il your son has curly
hair, and if he wears shoes in Summer
aud has pretty name, you had better let
him swim in washbowl.
= Mrs. Annie Rsush, of Letart, Va,
whose one hundredth birthday has just
been celebrated, is said to be the mother
of the largest family in America. She
was married when she was Is, and bore
thirteen children, eight of whom are liv.
ing. Her oldest child was born when she
was 16. and her oldest living child is 7S.
Her oldest grandchild is 6S years old.
She has ffty.two great great grandchil-
dren, and her descendants altogether
number over 600. She is apparently
good for wears vet.